Genesis 13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you come to Zoar. Torrey's Topical Textbook
Joel 2:3 A fire devours before them; and behind them a flame burns: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yes, and nothing shall escape them. Torrey's Topical Textbook
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Canaan on Earth ... water of the rain of heaven." Your fertility shall not ... having small gutters dug in the gardens, to compel ... carry desolation; before them is an Eden; behind them ... /.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/canaan on earth.htm